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mp04610@lemm.ee â¨8⊠â¨months⊠agoWhile thatâs the correct thing to do in my opinion, it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didnât store your original comments.
By corrupting their dataset, you may actually be helping them recognize maliciously edited comments.
Yeah, I mean I knew that when I was doing it.
Sometimes all you can do is make a symbolic gesture that really does nothing, and even if it does nothing, you should still do it.
Probably leaving and supporting lemmy by paying for some developer fees (iâm on the patreon), posting and commenting, probably 100x more damaging to Reddit.
FWIW, I requested an old reddit accounts data the other day under CCPA and all the contamination was in there. My guess is their backend updates every so often. i guess i made a good call to edit my comments and leave them there to simmer before i deleted them along with the account. perhaps this is the way?
Mass edits made rapidly are obviously suspect, too⌠If the same user edits anything more than a dozen comments in, say a minute, you have to ask whatâs going on
khannie@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
They were fairly specific about not doing that (Iâd imagine largely because of GDPR).
I deleted 10 years of âcontentâ before I left and checked their policies. They apparently actually do properly delete from their servers.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve got a bridge in the desert Iâd like to sell you.
joenforcer@midwest.social â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
GDPR is no joke. Storing a handful of comments is not worth the penalty if they get caught.
ItsAFake@lemmus.org â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
But the GDPR only covers European users tho.
khannie@lemmy.world â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thatâs true but itâs far easier to globally implement rather than trying to segment. Very difficult to accurately prove a user isnât EU resident across an entire userbase.
ItsAFake@lemmus.org â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thatâs probably why they donât let you access Reddit with a VPN, so they can have some idea of location.